How President Trump Could Reshape The Future Of The Middle East

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Friday, October 10th, 2025. I'm Jessica Rosenthal. The future of the Middle East and the U.S. role in peace may have forever shifted this week as the Trump administration works to make history in Israel and Gaza. The one thing that all the key players seem to agree on is that Hamas is not going to have a seat at the table with whatever comes next. I think there are a number of countries involved that are not in full alignment about. Is there a formal Palestinian state? Is there not? What does that look like? We speak with Fox News Sunday, anchor Shannon Breen. I'm Chris Foster. North Carolina being considered a purple state, not heavily Republican or Democrat, means next year's Senate race will be hard fought and maybe the most expensive in history. And every race is a battleground type race. Every race is going to be very close, very contested. We're speaking with North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley. And I'm Carol Markowitz. I've got the final word on the Fox News Rundown. As the world waits to lay eyes on 20 living hostages to be released from Gaza and for Israel to receive the bodies of 28 more, the questions are quickly turning to the future of the region. Decades of rocket launches by Hamas and Islamic jihad into Israel, culminating in the October 7th attack, which prompted the war in Gaza, may all be coming to an end. At least that's the goal. But so much more remains to be done, and President Trump knows it. Well, we're going to work with very wealthy countries. Countries full of people who love, he says, Arabs and Muslims. They're immensely wealthy, and they're going to be involved in putting up money. And for them, it's a small amount of money. For somebody else, it's a large amount of money. But, you know, these are the wealthiest countries in the world. And they'll be very much involved in making it as good as possible. When asked during Thursday's cabinet meeting if Gazans have been told they can remain there, the president said. Well, they know exactly what we're doing. We're going to create something where people can live. You can't live right now in Gaza. And critically, when asked what his view was of a two-state solution? I don't have a view. I'm going to go with what they agree to. As far as commitment to an agreement right now, Israel's foreign minister, Gideon Saar, was asked by Fox News Pentagon correspondent Jennifer Griffin in Jerusalem if he expects all of these hostages to be released. This is the commitment, the clear commitment of Hamas in this deal. I'm not answering an if questions because it never helps. We expect that everyone will fulfill its commitments. Saar said when Hamas reacted to President Trump's 20-point peace plan last week, unlike many others, the president responded positively. Saar said his optimistic tone got them to this point, and he called it brilliant. President Trump has referred to this as he thinks it will be called a peace council, something along those lines. Shannon Bream is Fox News Sunday anchor and host of the Live in the Breem podcast. We spoke Thursday. Where they build out the relationships of the Arab countries in the region. You heard Ambassador Hark. talk about Syria and Lebanon and others coming into these conversations about how you move things forward in a region, which has been in constant chaos for centuries, millennia, you could argue. So it's going to be a very delicate process. But the one thing that all the key players seem to agree on is that Hamas is not going to have a seat at the table with whatever comes next.

I think there are a number of countries involved that are not in full alignment about, is there a formal Palestinian state? Is there not? What does that look like? But they agree Hamas cannot be one of the parties to this conversation and that there's enormous rebuilding that has to happen just to put back together any form of stability for the people in that region. Shannon, there's a lot of discussion that the president's decision to take out much of Iran's nuclear program and Israel's strike on Hamas leadership in Qatar really impacted Hamas's negotiating position here and that the president used Benjamin Netanyahu's strike on Qatar and Qatari unease about it to sort of negotiate security guarantees as part of this process. What is our understanding as we zoom out on some of the more. recent developments and how that might have impacted Hamas. Yeah. And you'll remember at the time when it happened, there was a lot of distancing by the White House. We didn't know about it. They didn't ask our permission. This is a sovereign country. We would not have authorized this operation. There was a lot of language and conversation about how we were not a party to any of what happened there. On the Qatari strike. On the Qatari strike. But it clearly. took this to a new chapter, a new level of fear and threat and worry, I think, as you point out rightfully from the Qataris and people who are... Basically enjoying safe haven in that country, it's such a difficult, complex problem because Qatar obviously is a key negotiator for us trying to get any of this stuff done, trying to get the hostages back. I mean, the things that are really important, but they're also very much viewed as a place where groups we have designated as terrorist organizations live freely. Their leaders live freely. So Qatar is a key in this whole thing, but clearly that strike. which took a ton of criticism and heaped it onto Israel and NetNahu and to everybody involved. On to them, it may have been what moves the needle significantly enough to finally two years in get to where we hope we will be in the coming days. The president told Sean Hannity on Wednesday night, his relationship with so many in the Middle East, so many countries impacted these negotiations. We know he's gotten pushback for these business relationships that he has with the Qataris. As you note, Hamas leaders, wine and dine in Qatar. If this all works out, what will it mean? Like, does this have the potential to really reshape how world affairs are dealt with in the future? This president's willingness. to sort of go outside what we think of as traditional relationship lines. Yeah, I mean, he's nothing if not non-traditional on the way that he operates as a U.S. president.

But, you know, his team will constantly, and he'll point back to his first term, the Abraham Accords were something that people thought couldn't get done. And he's often talked about. I mean, he's a relational guy. He's taken a lot of heat for relationships with Kim Jong-un, with Vladimir Putin, with, you know, all kinds of different people, different politics, different backgrounds, different countries, different interests. But he has always felt like... a relationship guy, I think that really harkens back to his business and construction and real estate days. The way that he gets done is very much not like a politician. It's much more like a businessman. So, you know, they've always taken the win on the Abraham Accords and, you know, had talked about how they were moving to the next phase, that they were going to bring in other countries and other interests. Until October 7th happened, you know, there were a lot of people who felt like what the, what the first term of the Trump presidency had done in building those relationships, that there may be some advancement under the Biden years. And yet it was the threat of that that may have, you know, launched Hamas to decide so October 7th happened. So I think the president does have a very unique way of doing things. And. Listen, if this holds together, as we are all so hopeful that it will, you got to give him credit, whether you're a fan or not of him, of his party, of his politics, for really getting unbelievable things to the table. You know, the president also told Sean Hannity that he thinks that tariffs are creating world peace. Because he says he's going to these countries and he's saying, like, look, we're not going to do business with you if you're at war. And that's not necessarily related to Hamas, right? But if that is, if he believes tariffs are so important to foreign relations, does the Trump administration probably have a backup plan to continue tariffs if the Supreme Court doesn't side with him? in the November arguments, the tariffs are based on an on an emergency, right? If the Supreme Court doesn't agree with that argument, do you imagine the Trump administration has a backup plan if they are so critical? I think they always do. And it'll be interesting to see how quickly the court moves. I mean, they added this to the calendar. So November 5th, they will have those tariff arguments. I note a lot of people feel like, oh, that's weeks away. I mean, by Supreme Court, Sandra says lightning speed. So they may give us a pretty quick decision on that. And it doesn't cover all of the tariffs. You know it covers a big chunk of what the president has done with his tariffs. So a significant tool that he would not be happy to lose. Should he lose that case? But I think that they will find other ways. Just as, you know, President Biden got struck down with respect to the massive student loan program he was doing. So they decided, okay, we can't do it in the sweeping way that the court said we can't do. But here are other piecemeal ways that we can start to work some of these student loans. I think in much the same way, the Trump administration is probably gamed out, okay, what other avenues, what other tariffs can we use? Maybe we can't use this big blanket that we were trying to use this Emergency Powers Act.

But what are the other ways that we can institute similar tariffs? I mean, some of it may force them to go through Congress, which, you know, there's a lot of pushback to the tariffs that the president has used. There have been efforts by some to actually pass legislation to, you know, kind of claw back his ability to do some of these tariffs. So part of the path may lead him through Capitol Hill, but I think that they're looking at every other possibility should they lose at the Supreme Court. Let's talk about this war of words between Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and the president over sending the guard into Chicago, the president's talking, and we need our legal eagle here. He's talking about invoking the Insurrection Act while we have the Posse Comitatis Act. Can you explain legally what would be required for an exception to occur here? Well, you know, the critics of this have said, listen, the president's not able to show that we are facing a national security threat in the way that would justify something like the Insurrection Act. He's going to argue, you know, the gang traffic and the violence and all of these different things lead him to that place. But you'll notice he's been really hesitant to actually use the Insurrection Act. I think the optics of it go beyond where the American people, I think, are comfortable. I mean, pulling, new polling out even this week shows. The people are very uncomfortable with using U.S. military on American streets short of an absolute cratering meltdown or national security threat. Most Americans don't think we're there. They agree that there's crime and there are issues, but they're very uncomfortable with men and women in uniform on the streets of the United States. You know, while the president may argue that he could leverage and could activate the Insurrection Act, there's been a real hesitance to do so. I think within the administration because they knew the optics of that are really difficult. Now, the legal question is a different one, but I think they're more concerned about the optics at this point. You know, a lot of legal legals think they're going to, they would lose on that point if they tried to use the Insurrection Act to justify military use on U.S. streets. I'm not sure he goes there. I think he likes to rattle the saber, but I think that they're still not ready to pull that trigger. Finally, Shannon, I read a post from someone this week who said, you know what, the fact that there's a government shutdown and it hasn't affected me at all proves the government's useless. But Transportation Secretary John Duffy said this week, our air traffic controllers, some of them are talking about driving Uber in a couple of weeks if they don't get paid. Now he's saying the government could dismiss air traffic controllers who, you know, keep calling out sick because this increase in absences is causing a lot of disruption. So it sounds like it could at some point affect a lot of us if we can't fly. Yeah, I remember the last major shutdown under President Trump last term. It really kind of started to turn on these air travel issues because that does affect thousands and thousands of people every day across the country. So it is the real life impact that starts to hurt people. Keep in mind, if there's not a deal that comes together, I think by Monday, then military folks are going to start missing their paychecks next week.

People will say, okay, everyone gets paid back in the end. They do, although they're now having a debate over which federal workers may not get paid back. That's a whole another hornet's nest. White House has stirred up. But everybody agrees the military should be getting paid. And the fact is, especially for military families, for a lot of families in America, you miss one paycheck. You're going default on your bills. I mean, people live paycheck to paycheck, most especially many of our military members. So. There are real world impacts that are going to start to hurt. And air travel is one of them, making sure that people who need their paychecks to get paid. I mean, when people start missing a paycheck, it starts to get attention. And that has a ripple effect. You're going to hear from military families and from, you know, the businesses that they frequent and they support will then not be able to continue moving forward or they're going to have some loss of income. So there's definitely a ripple there. Fox News Sunday anchor and we will be watching the show. Shannon Bream, thanks so much for joining. Thank you, Jess.

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One thing you don't have to worry about, presumably, no disrespect to anybody else who might be on the ballot, but you have a fairly clear runway next spring to be in the race next November, as does former Governor Roy Cooper for the Democrats. Now, he's obviously very well known, pretty well liked as far as I know. Now, that means he has a record to run on, means he has a record for you to run against. It absolutely does. And it's a record that's really out of step for North Carolina. You know, when you think about the issue sets that North Carolina people care about, they match up very closely with the election set that we had in 2024, right? So we want, you know, to rebuild the economy. We want to make sure that our borders are strong and secure. We want to make sure our kids and our communities are safe. And we want to make sure that we're going to be respected around. the world. North Carolina's got a huge military presence, veterans presence. You know, so we're going to be focusing on those issues sets. And on every one of the major 80-20 issues that we're facing right now, Roy Cooper's on the 20% side. He has followed locked stop. and barrel the democratic machine at this point in time. So, you know, he is supporting the shutdown. He is going to support going after President Trump. He supports open borders and inflationary spending and a weak America, that agenda that the Democrats ran on in 24, lost on 24, they're doubling down. He's going to be right there with him. And you've also called him soft on crime. Tell people about this just past Rina's law that you say is a rebuke to that. Well, it really is. You know, you think about what happened in Charlotte, where we had to Carlos Brown Jr., who had been arrested and released 14 different times and killed this young lady. He should have never been on that car, right? And should have never been in position. The reason he was on the streets is because in 2020, in the middle of his marching around Raleigh during the riots with Antifa and Black Live Matter, Roy Cooper signed an executive order to reimagine law enforcement and create cashless bail and create the revolving door that put this guy back on the street. for people who don't remember exactly what we're talking about, not stab this woman from Ukraine on the train. Right, exactly. You know, and so, you know, when we go back and we trace the soft on crime policies that he put in place, it's a direct line to this killing and many, many others that we have seen in Charlotte and, frankly, across the street. So, you know, I called on the legislature to immediately step up and pass Arena's law and make sure that they're going to take care of rolling back the soft on crime policies. And you still get a Democratic governor, John. He signed the law. He said he didn't like all of it, but he liked enough of it, at least the idea of taking a closer look at who should be getting bail and who shouldn't. Now, Governor Cooper's obviously, he's breaking records, literally breaking records with his fundraising. You've been a really prodigious fundraiser yourself over the decades for other people. But that also means you have plenty of people who can ask to step up and help you now.

Yeah, look, we raised $6 million in the first six weeks of the campaign. We're very excited about kind of the pace that we're going on. And we also recognize that the Democrats absolutely have a ton of money. They're always going to have a ton of money. You know, I just go back to the presidential cycle last year. Kamala Harris and the Democrats outraised us by a billion dollars in that election cycle. You have to have a candidate. You have to have a message. You've got to run a campaign. Those are ultimately going to be the factors. And the Republicans win. in North Carolina, despite it being a purple state, because we listen to the voters. We understand the issues they care about and we put solutions on the table. Senator Tellis, in announcing he wasn't going to run again, had been under fire from the president, in part for not voting for the Republican so-called Big Beautiful Bill. In part, he said because he was concerned about Medicaid cuts. What do you tell people that are afraid about losing their health care to those cuts or to the end of Obamacare subsidies if that happens? Well, we absolutely need to make sure. that Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security are going to be there for the most vulnerable and for our seniors in North Carolina and around the country. Full stop. Right. But when you look at what the provisions were in the one big, beautiful bill, it was a work requirement for able-bodied folks that are under 65. The vast majority of people in North Carolina support that. It was making sure that we don't have illegal aliens who are getting Medicaid. The vast majority of people in North Carolina support that. It was making sure that we don't have people double dealing by being on Medicaid in multiple different states. Again, a big winner. So you look at the provisions that are in that bill, they actually are very strongly supported across. North Carolina. Ultimately, what we need to do is make sure that that program is strong enough, sustainable enough to take care of our most vulnerable and our seniors going forward. Senator Taylor has also complained about and talked for a while before announcing his decision about partisan gridlock and he was just sick of the political theater of it all. You're obviously a quite partisan guy. If you're elected, what's your philosophy on all that? Do you try to work with the other side where you can or do you just say, let's just win? No, look, my philosophy is North Carolina first, right? We need to make sure that we have an economy that works for every family and every community in North Carolina. We need to make sure that our kids in our communities are going to be safe. We need to make sure that our men and women in uniform have what they need to be able to protect our interests and allies around the world. I'll work with anybody who is willing to work with me on that type of an agenda. You know, partisan gridlock, as you said, that has been a part of Washington, D.C. since I grew up as a kid. And for many, many decades before that, and it is always going to be the way it is. You know, the Constitution set it up so that it is hard to get things done at the federal government level because then only the important things get done. But as far as my willingness to work with anybody on the behalf of North Carolina, 100%. Well, speaking of helping people, you're on this FEMA Review Council. President Trump has said, look, let's give disaster aid. More control over that to the states. They know what's going on on the ground. Now, there's people in Western North Carolina that are still waiting for help from Hurricane Helene. That was a year and a week or two ago that that hit. What do you tell people there?

including Republicans that are frustrated with the lack of help. Well, there has been a lot of help. There is a lot of help to go, right? So far, since President Trump took over, the federal government has put $6.5 billion plus into relief into Western North Carolina. 97% of the roads are complete. 97% of the bridges are rebuilt. The debris has been removed by the Corps of Engineers. You know, a lot of the conversations we're having right now are about reimbursements for the debris removal for the clean up, making sure that the streams and the waterways are cleaned up. And there is a lot of work that needs to be done with that. He did ask me to be on the FEMA Review Council where we need to have a very hard look at how FEMA operates, right? And the fact is, the federal government should not be the first responders when we have storms like this. I mean, it really is, you know, let the counties kind of execute in terms of of the recovery for the storms. The states need to oversee it. The federal government needs to provide support for it. And as we speak, we're waiting, hopefully, presumably for the release of Israeli hostages. You said on X, only President Trump could have gotten Hamas and Israel to negotiate. Well, it's really important. I mean, the president has never taken his eye off this ball since the day that we saw the hostages were taken on October 7th. And that he felt very strongly that this would not have happened had he been in office. But since the day that he was sworn in, this has been a very, very high priority. nobody else in the world that could get Hamas and Israel to the table to be able to set up this program that ultimately will get the hostages back and bring peace and stability to the Middle East. It is absolutely huge that he's been able to accomplish this. If you're elected, you'll have two years of the Trump presidency and then you stay in the Senate and the White House moves on from there. Where does the party go? He's become the party. down the road. Republicans have an amazing bench. You know, when you think about the, the talent that we have in this administration right now, whether it's the vice president or its Marco Rubio or any number of other folks that are in the cabinet, you look at the governors that we have all across this country, Ron DeSantis, Glenn Youngkin, you know, others that we think about, you know, even members of the House and the Senate, there is a lot of talent in the Republican Party. The key is that President Trump remade this party. And it is now focused on the working men and women of America. And it is focused on a conversation with every family and every community. That can't change. We cannot go back to the old Republican Party. What we need to do is make sure that we're going to continue to fight for every American family, for every American community. And as long as we do that, I think the Republicans will have a very long run. Michael Whatley, trying to win his own campaign as a Republican candidate for Senate in North Carolina. Michael, nice to meet you. Good luck. Good to see you. Thanks, sir.

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